Motivating Your Employees

Motivating Your Employees

• What is Motivation?
• The willingness to do something conditioned by the action’s ability to satisfy some need for the individual.

A Need

• Is a physiological or psychological deficiency that makes certain outcomes seem attractive.

Understanding Individual Differences

• To varying degrees and in particular ways:
• We are all different

Understanding Individual Differences

• And while it is also true that we are all motivated by a wide array of needs at differing levels of intensity,

Understanding Individual Differences

• It is also possible to identify and generalize about certain personality characteristics that help us better understand the behavior and motivation of employees at work.